Bill Text: IL HB0720 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Horse Meat Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0720 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB0720-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB0720 Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Madigan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
225 ILCS 635/1 from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 240
Amends the Illinois Horse Meat Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Horse Meat Act is amended by
changing Section 1 as follows:
(225 ILCS 635/1) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 240)
Sec. 1. In this Act, unless the the context or subject
matter otherwise requires:
(1) "Horse Meat" means the flesh of any animal of the
equine family.
(2) "Slaughterer" means any person engaged in killing
animals of the equine family where the carcasses are butchered
for any purpose other than that of manufacturing tankage.
(3) "Wholesale Distributor" means any person not licensed
as a slaughterer who is engaged in the business of securing
horse meat from a slaughterer, distributor or any other person
and distributing it to any retailer, stock or pet ranch, or
place where food is served for consumption on the premises.
(4) "Package" means any closed and sealed container which
is sold as an unopened unit to the purchaser.
(5) "Bulk meat" means whole carcass, half carcass or
quarter carcass.
(6) "Director" means the Director of Agriculture.

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(7) "Department" means the Department of Agriculture.
(8) "Processor" means an establishment in which carcasses,
parts of carcasses, meat or meat-by-products derived from any
animal of the equine family are wholly or in part canned,
packed or otherwise processed or prepared for sale.
(9) "Breeder and Raiser of Fur Bearing Animals" means and
includes any person who is actively engaged in breeding and
raising fur bearing animals who kills and butchers animals of
the equine family for feed for such fur bearing animals and
does not sell or distribute any part of meat therefrom except
in ground form, in which the meat and bones have been ground
together, and then only to other persons who also are engaged
in the breeding and raising of fur bearing animals.
(Source: Laws 1955, p. 388.)